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70World Traveler did seem completely aimless for the first third. However, once I comprehended where Freundlich was going with this, I began to really enjoy where the film was taking me.
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70Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.
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Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.
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60Crudup takes a riskier path: his architect isn't very nice and is possibly irredeemable. His performance is subtle, complicated, and fresh, and it's a shame the movie doesn't live up to it.
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50There are moments of sudden truth in the film; Freundlich, who also made "The Myth of Fingerprints" (1997), about an almost heroically depressed family at Thanksgiving, can create and write characters, even if he doesn't always know where to take them.
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50Iridescent as each of the actors is, the result is like a handful of beads without the connecting string.
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50The real seduction Crudup pulls off is that he makes it seem possible that the character hasn't actually done all of these awful things.
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50As beautiful to look at and as emotionally disconnected as its central character.
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Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.
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50The gorgeous Crudup is talented, but this charming asshole (more asshole than charming) is old hat for him, little more than another of the blank-eyed-loser-on-a-spiritual-quest roles in which he's been trafficking lately.
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50The film is perhaps best enjoyed as a minor work with some major pluses, notably in the characterizations and in their adroit portrayals.
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50A small story, a monodrama with a hero but no antagonists.
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50The Crudup of "Almost Famous" was both hairier and more appealing than the tortured womanizer of World Traveler. Couldn't Cal have just stayed home, grown a mustache, and called his dad on the phone? [22 & 29 April 2002, p. 209]
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42Limps shallowly along.
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40Freundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much.
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40A hopelessly stolid and distant evocation of Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces."
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40The movie's single brilliant invention -- Julianne Moore as a used, contentious, profoundly odd floozy on her own magical mystery tour.
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40Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world.
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40Loses significant points for its lazy story and complacent delivery.
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38Crudup is about as effective as anyone could be in the dreary World Traveler, but he can't keep this shallow, pretentious film from wallowing in banality and staggering self-indulgence.
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38Crudup gives it his best, but his character is so economically drawn, there's hardly anything there -- certainly nothing likable.
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38Amidst the ennui, there are some fine performances.
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38A huge disappointment -- the kind of motion picture that makes you actively angry at the filmmaker for subjecting you to it and stealing two hours of your life.
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25Dreary movie.
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20It's hard to remember a movie that has asked us to care, without giving us reason to, about a character who is so thoroughly and relentlessly a prick.
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20Anemic, pretentious.
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